dances with fishes

Dancing With Fish

Safety stops. We all have to take them. We spend our obligatory 3 minutes at 15 feet for recreational diving and whether you are drift diving, fighting for your depth against the swells and jellyfish, or shore diving and watching your PSI diminish, there’s always something great to see. Shore diving in low or no …

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Discovering Scuba Diving

“Diving? No. I’d be claustrophobic”. I hear this often, and I don’t understand. Scuba diving to me, is one of the most freeing sports I’ve ever attempted, short of horseback riding. Perhaps it is because I started in the “young and dumb” phase of my life, where fear couldn’t possibly overpower accomplishment. Or, perhaps it …

The Mantis Shrimp

December. Rainy season. Rain starting, pouring down as the seas picked up to 3′ swells and rising.  We were in between dives when one of the other divers started feeling seasick.  We were pretty close to a nearby dock and offered to drop the diver off.  The captain asked if we minded diving the close …